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Always Runningby Luis RodriguezISBN 0743276914 (0-7432-7691-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Running'Book summary:The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover.
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man's life in a Chicano gang-and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more-until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.
At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation. [via]
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Annabel: An Unconventional Lifeby Annabel GoldsmithISBN 0753820374 (0-7538-2037-4)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Another Part of the Wood: A Selfportraitby Kenneth ClarkISBN 0719529794 (0-7195-2979-4)
Hardcover, Murray
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Antimemoiresby Andre MalrauxISBN 0685110095 (0-685-11009-5)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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The Art of Eatingby James A. Beard, Joan Reardon, M. F. K. Fisher, Clifton FadimanISBN 0764542613 (0-7645-4261-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Eating'Book summary:A collection of essays by one of America's best known food writers, that are often more autobiographical or historical than anecdotal musings on food preparation and consumption. The book includes culinary advice to World War II housewives plagued by food shortages, portraits of family members and friends (with all their idiosyncrasies) and notes on her studies at the University of Dijon, in France. Through each story she weaves her love of food and passion for cooking, and illustrates that our three basic needs as human beings--love, food and security--are so intermingled that it is difficult to think of one without the others. The book won the 1989 James Beard Cookbook Award. [via]
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Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranickiby Marcel Reich-RanickiISBN 0691090408 (0-691-09040-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki'Book summary:Marcel Reich-Ranicki is remarkable for both his unlikely life story and his brilliant career as the "pope of German letters." His sublimely written autobiography is at once a fascinating adventure tale, an unusual account of German-Jewish relations, a personal rumination on who's who in German culture, and a love letter to literature.
Reich-Ranicki's life took him from middle-class childhood to wartime misery to the heights of intellectual celebrity. Born into a Jewish family in Poland in 1920, he moved to Berlin as a boy. There he discovered his passion for literature and began a complex affair with German culture. In 1938, his family was deported back to Poland, where German occupation forced him into the Warsaw Ghetto. As a member of the Jewish resistance, a translator for the Jewish Council, and a man who personally experienced the ghetto's inhumane conditions, Reich-Ranicki gained both a bird's-eye and ground-level view of Nazi barbarism. Written with subtlety and intelligence, his account of this episode is among the most compelling and dramatic ever recorded.
He escaped with his wife and spent two years hiding in the cellar of Polish peasants--an incident later immortalized by Günter Grass. After liberation, he joined and then fell out with the Communist Party and was temporarily imprisoned. He began writing and soon became Poland's foremost critical commentator on German literature.
When Reich-Ranicki returned to Germany in 1958, his rise was meteoric. In short order, he claimed national celebrity and notoriety as the head of the literary section of the leading newspaper and host of his own television program. He frequently flabbergasted viewers with his bold pronouncements and flexed his power to make or break a writer's career. His list of friends and enemies rapidly expanded to include every influential player on the German literary scene, including Grass and Heinrich Böll. This, together with his keen critical instincts, makes his memoir an indispensable guide to contemporary German culture as well as an absorbing eyewitness history of some of the twentieth century's most important events.
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Banco:the Further Adventures of Papillon: The Further Adventures of Papillonby Henri CharriereISBN 0688002188 (0-688-00218-8)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Beasts in My Belfryby Joe DurellISBN 0708901727 (0-7089-0172-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Beginningby Kenneth BranaghISBN 0701133880 (0-7011-3388-0)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Being an Actorby Simon CallowISBN 0802131239 (0-8021-3123-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Belles on Their Toesby Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine G. GareyISBN 0690130236 (0-690-13023-6)
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945by Leo MarksISBN 068486780X (0-684-86780-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945'Book summary:At the age of 8, Leo Marks discovered the great game of code-making and -breaking in his father's London bookshop, thanks to a first edition of Poe's The Gold-Bug. At 23, as World War II was being played out in earnest, he hoped to use his strengths for the Allies. But Marks's urgent, witty memoir, Between Silk and Cyanide, begins with his failure to get into British Intelligence's cryptographic department. As everyone else on his course heads off to Bletchley Park ("the promised land"), he is sent to what his sergeant terms "some potty outfit in Baker Street, an open house for misfits." In fact, the Special Operations Executive's mandate was, in Churchill's stirring phrase, to "Set Europe Ablaze," and Marks's was to monitor code security so that agents could could report back as safely as possible. When he arrived, the common wisdom was that it was easiest for men and women in the field to memorize and use well-known poems.
Unfortunately, since the Germans had equal access to the classics--"Reference books," Marks quips, "are jackboots when used by cryptographers"--Marks thought agents should write their own poems (or use his) instead, several of which are cheerily obscene. After all, no son or daughter of the Fatherland could ever know the rest of a verse that began "Is de Gaulle's prick / Twelve inches thick," and continued on in a similar, shall we say, vein. But Marks soon felt that original doggerel was just as dangerous, since even slight misspellings could render messages indecipherable and risk agents' lives. His first solution? WOKs (worked-out keys) printed on silk. An operative would use one key, send the message, and immediately tear off the strip. Marks had a hard time proving that swaths of silk would save his people from swallowing their "optional extra," a cyanide pill. His efforts were dead serious, but often landed him in comic terrain.
In one of the book's great set pieces, Marks visits Colonel Wills--surely the model for Ian Fleming's Q--in order to sort out the best ways to print his code keys. Before solving this minor problem (invisible ink!), Wills showed Marks several new projects--one of which involves an exotic array of dung, courtesy of the London Zoo. This gifted gadgetmeister planned to model life-sized reproductions of these droppings and pack them with explosives, personalized for all parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. "Once trodden on or driven over (hopefully by the enemy) the whole lot would go off with a series of explosions even more violent than the ones which had produced it," Marks explains.
Despite such larky sentences and sections, the author never loses sight of the importance of his vocation, and Between Silk and Cyanide is as elegiac as it is engaging. Marks knows when to cut the laugh track, particularly as his book becomes a despairing record of agents blown--lost to torture, prison, the camps, and execution. Readers will never forget the valor of Violette Szabo, Noor Inayat Kahn, and the White Rabbit himself, Flight Lieutenant Yeo-Thomas. Poem-cracking, as Marks again and again makes clear, was far more than a parlor game. --Kerry Fried [via]
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Placeby Harry CrewsISBN 0688023983 (0-688-02398-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Complete Essays of Montaigneby Michel E. De MontaigneISBN 0804704864 (0-8047-0486-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Essays of Montaigne'Book summary:A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himselfthe freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything. Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review [via]
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Daughter of the River: An Autobiographyby Hong YingISBN 0802136605 (0-8021-3660-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Dead Man Walkingby Helen PrejeanISBN 0679751319 (0-679-75131-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Man Walking'Book summary:In 1982, sister helen prejean became the spiritual advisor to patrick sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of louisiana's angola state prison. In the months before sonnier's death, the roman catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. At the same time, she came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute him--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the christian imperative of love, dead man walking is an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating [via]
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Death in the Afternoonby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801450 (0-684-80145-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in the Afternoon'Book summary:Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry, and its requisite display of grace under pressure, ignited Hemingway's imagination. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick." Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great elegance and cunning.
A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation of the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp commentary on life and literature. [via]
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Death in the Afternoon: ISBN 0684157500 (0-684-15750-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co - Death in the Afternoon: ISBN 0684717964 (0-684-71796-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Death in the Afternoon: ISBN 0684801450 (0-684-80145-0)
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesiaby Elizabeth GilbertISBN 0786288132 (0-7862-8813-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesia'Book summary:It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So, she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her. [via]
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The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberiaby Esther HautzigISBN 0694056081 (0-694-05608-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia'Book summary:During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe. [via]
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The Essays of Michel De Montaigneby Michel De Montaigne, M. A. ScreechISBN 0713990724 (0-7139-9072-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essays of Michel De Montaigne'Book summary:Catalog of a private collection of mostly post-archaic Chinese jade carvings, including many very fine animals and human figures. [via]
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Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943by Arnold J. Pomerans, Etty Hillesum, Klaas A. D. SmelikISBN 0802839592 (0-8028-3959-2)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943'Book summary:Commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, "Etty" is the only complete, unabridged edition of the letters and diaries of a singular hero - and victim - of the Nazi Holocaust. This fascinating, profound, and often moving body of work reveals the interior life of a brilliant young Jewish woman. Born in January 1914, Etty Hillesum began her diary in 1941, nine months after Hitler invaded her home country of the Netherlands. The record she kept for the next two years contains arresting personal reflections and chronicles her social, intellectual, and - most significantly - spiritual growth. In addition to her ongoing search for God and truth, one of the most noted and instructive features of Etty's development was her recognition of, and her struggle to overcome, the disorder within her own being. It was her success in finally transcending her own sense of captivity within that allowed her to rise above cruel and fearsome circumstances without. Indeed, in the midst of the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, Etty's writings reveal a woman who celebrated life and remained an undaunted example of courage, sympathy, and compassion. Letters that she wrote to friends during her internment at the Westerbork transit camp poignantly describe the day-to-day horrors that the Jewish prisoners faced. Nonetheless, Etty's courage and determination remained strong, allowing her to rise above the hate around her and express her irrepressible faith in humanity. As she wrote in her last letter, thrown from the train that took her to her death at Auschwitz, "We left the camp singing." Through this splendid edition of Etty's writing, edited by Klaas A. D. Smelik and translated by Arnold J. Pomerans, readers everywhere will resonate with the spirit of this remarkable woman. [via]
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Excelsior: The Amazing Life of Stan Leeby George Mair, Stan LeeISBN 0684873052 (0-684-87305-2)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Excelsior: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee'Book summary:The excitement generated by Excelsior!, the long-awaited autobiography of an icon of the comic world that coincides with the release of the springs most keenly anticipated blockbuster, Spider-Man, may not equal the frenzy the movie is creating, but many have been eagerly awaiting Stan Lees revelations on how he created such immortal superheroes as the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, the X-Men and--oh, yes--Spider-Man. Lee is Marvel Comics veteran writer and creative director who almost single-handedly made comics hip--thanks to his innovations, campuses all over the US and the UK began to find comics de rigueur reading. The urbane, immensely likeable Lee has been in the comics business for over 40 years, and has long been its most articulate voice. This fascinating, handsomely illustrated memoir details the writers life from childhood in a modest Jewish family in New York to getting his first story published in a magazine at seventeen, and his break into comics as jack-of-all trades at Timely Comics (Marvel's predecessor) where he met legendary artist Jack Kirby (his co-creator of most of the great Marvel superheroes). His talents didnt go unrecognised for long: he became creative director at 18. Lee enlisted when the war broke out and was one of only eight US Army playwrights alongside such stellar names as Frank Capra. Lee went back to comics after the war as the driving force behind Marvel, selling over two billion comics to readers of all ages throughout the world. Lees memoir is always candid about such things as the shabby treatment he received at the hands of incompetent or avaricious bosses, and refreshingly up front about his bitter break with the two key illustrators who worked with him, Jack Kirby and Spider-Man artist Steve Ditko. The tone of voice here will be very familiar to those raised on Marvel Comics: its a good-natured, winningly self-critical, utterly riveting read, and an essential curtain raiser for the Spider-Man movie.--Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiographyby Philip RothISBN 0679749055 (0-679-74905-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Forging of a Rebelby Arturo BareaISBN 0802776159 (0-8027-7615-9)
Softcover, Walker & Company
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Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr.by Lewis B. PullerISBN 0802136907 (0-8021-3690-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Golden Bats and Pink Pigeonsby Gerald DurrellISBN 0708904157 (0-7089-0415-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons'Book summary:On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens...In an incredibly short space of time, a number of unique species had vanished...Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean that was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, still had among its fauna many unique but endangered species, among them Mauritius kestrels, Telfair's skinks, Gunther's geckos and pink pigeons. The indigenous flora and fauna of Mauritius were, by the 1970s, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails.When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius. [via]
The Good Timesby Russell BakerISBN 0688061702 (0-688-06170-2)
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Grey Is the Color of Hopeby Irina Ratushinskaya, Alyona KojevnikovISBN 0685306828 (0-685-30682-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Placesby David Breashears, Jon KrakauerISBN 0684865459 (0-684-86545-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places'Book summary:David Breashears has climbed Mt. Everest four times. For this, he is known as a world-class mountaineer. A lengthy career in documentary filmmaking--including the Imax film, Everest--has earned him wide acclaim and four Emmy awards. For this, he is known as one of the elite cinematographers in his field. But his new autobiography, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other High Places, proves he is more than a climber and a filmmaker; he is also an able writer.
Breashears has no lack of good material. We follow him through the stunning backdrops of Yosemite, Europe, Nepal, and Tibet, brushing up against triumphs and tragedies along the way. And while the nuts and bolts of his adventures are entertainment enough, his knack for building suspense and employing understated drama makes his autobiography read like a novel: "The morning was sunny and calm, and Rob looked as though he'd lain down on his side and fallen asleep. Around him the undisturbed snow sparkled in the sun. I stared at his bare left hand ... I wondered what a mountaineer with Rob's experience was doing without a glove."
Breashears also likes to remind his audience of humble beginnings surmounted: his early climbing days when he was known as "the kid," and a winter he spent sleeping under a sheet of plywood during the Wyoming oil boom when he was called "the worm." But mostly he documents his filmmaking career and climbing passion, both of which he approaches with an obsessive fervor. Readers interested in either pursuit will find High Exposure a fascinating traverse across the spine of the world. --Ben Tiffany [via]
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History of My Lifeby Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. TraskISBN 0801856620 (0-8018-5662-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of My Life'Book summary:This translation of Giacomo Casanova's epic memoir was first published in a multi-volume set more than 25 years ago, but this new paperback edition makes Casanova's story accessible to the general reader. Thankfully, the great Venetian adventurer's memoirs can finally be read as they were written, without the bowdlerizing that plagued them for two centuries. While Casanova is most notorious for his womanizing, his memoirs are also remarkable as they give a top-to-bottom view of European life in the 18th century. Johns Hopkins University Press has done a handsome job, packaging the entire story in six double volumes. And, in keeping with the spirit of the author, it's worth mentioning that a 17th-century painting of lounging nude woman spans across the spines of the set when they're arranged on the shelf. [via]
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The Hungry Oceanby Linda GreenlawISBN 0786885416 (0-7868-8541-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hungry Ocean'Book summary:The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.
There is the weather, the constant danger of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling five sleep-, women-, and booze-deprived young fishermen in close quarters, not to mention the threat of a bad fishing run: "If we don't catch fish, we don't get paid, period. In short, there is no labor union." Greenlaw's straightforward, uncluttered prose underscores the qualities that make her a good captain, regardless of gender: fairness, physical and mental endurance, obsessive attention to detail. But, ultimately, Greenlaw proves that the love of fishing--in all of its grueling, isolating, suspenseful glory--is a matter of the heart and blood, not the mind. "I knew that the ocean had stories to tell me, all I needed to do was listen." --Svenja Soldovieri [via]
I Never Played the Gameby Howard Cosell, Peter BonventreISBN 0688044816 (0-688-04481-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Infidelby Ayaan Hirsi AliISBN 0743289684 (0-7432-8968-4)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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Killing Bonoby Neil McCormickISBN 0743482484 (0-7434-8248-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Knee Deep in Paradiseby Brett ButlerISBN 0786889144 (0-7868-8914-4)
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Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Rememberedby Ruth KlugerISBN 0747560056 (0-7475-6005-6)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Leading With My Chinby Jay Leno, Bill ZehmeISBN 0783885245 (0-7838-8524-5)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Locked in the Cabinetby Robert B. ReichISBN 0786212160 (0-7862-1216-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Locked in the Cabinet'Book summary:On the face of it, here's an improbable book: a memoir of four years as Secretary of ... Labor. Well, in this case it works because the author is Robert B. Reich, a warm and lively writer who because of his 'Friend Of Bill' status and his strong positions on economic issues was inside virtually every political and ideological tussle of the Clinton administration's first term. What puts the book over the top though is that its author retains his humanity even after walking through the looking glass of official Washington. We experience, for instance, the angst of having to let his two sons and wife go back to the family home in Cambridge because he can't quite yet leave the struggle for such improvements as an increase in the minimum wage. Throughout it all, Reich keeps the sharp eye of the outsider. Witness for example this comment about Newt Gingrich: "His office is adorned with figurines of dinosaurs, as you might find in the bedrooms of little boys who dream of one day being huge and powerful." [via]
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Loitering With Intent: The Apprenticeby Peter O'TooleISBN 0786860650 (0-7868-6065-0)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Loitering With Intent: The Childby Peter O'Toole, Rick KotISBN 0786881968 (0-7868-8196-8)
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Livingby Bailey WhiteISBN 0679751602 (0-679-75160-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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My Traitor's Heartby Rian MalanISBN 0802136842 (0-8021-3684-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Night Lettersby Robert Dessaix, Igor MiazmovISBN 0732908515 (0-7329-0851-5)
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No Disrespectby SouljahISBN 0679767088 (0-679-76708-8)
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depressionby Andrew SolomonISBN 0684854678 (0-684-85467-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression'Book summary:Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly path through the subject of depression--exposing all the discordant views and "answers" offered by science, philosophy, law, psychology, literature, art, and history. The result is a sprawling and thoroughly engrossing study, brilliantly synthesized by author Andrew Solomon.
Deceptively simple chapter titles (including "Breakdowns," "Treatments," "Addiction," "Suicide") each sit modestly atop a virtual avalanche of Solomon's intellect. This is not a book to be skimmed. But Solomon commands the language--and his topic--with such grace and empathy that the constant flow of references, poems, and quotations in his paragraphs arrive like welcome dinner guests. A longtime sufferer of severe depression himself, Solomon willingly shares his life story with readers. He discusses updated information on various drugs and treatment approaches while detailing his own trials with them. He describes a pharmaceutical company's surreal stage production (involving Pink Floyd, kick dancers, and an opener à la Cats) promoting a new antidepressant to their sales team. He chronicles his research visits to assorted mental institutions, which left him feeling he would "much rather engage with every manner of private despair than spend a protracted time" there. Under Solomon's care, however, such tales offer much more than shock value. They show that depression knows no social boundaries, manifests itself quite differently in each person, and has become political. And, while it may worsen or improve, depression will never be eradicated. Hope lies in finding ways--as Solomon clearly has--to harness its powerful lessons. --Liane Thomas [via]
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Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsbergby Carolyn CassadyISBN 0688088910 (0-688-08891-0)
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The Partly Cloudy Patriotby Sarah Vowell, Katherine StreeterISBN 0743243803 (0-7432-4380-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Partly Cloudy Patriot'Book summary:In "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio's "This American Life" -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California so much worse than a bad life anywhere else? What is it about the Zen of foul shots? And, in the title piece, why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot?
Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, themes, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German filmmakers; Tom Cruise and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer; " twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration.
The result is a teeming and engrossing book, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.
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Past Is Myselfby Christabel BielenbergISBN 0701113332 (0-7011-1333-2)
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynmanby Richard P Feynman, Michelle Feynman, Timothy FerrisISBN 0738206369 (0-7382-0636-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Even while working on top secret physics, Feynman was an enthusiastic correspondent, jumping eagerly at the chance to encourage a young scientist, correct a public misperception, or tell a goofy joke to his family. Self-effacing, charmingly down to earth, and occasionally cranky, these letters cover Feynman's entire career, although in the fits and starts one would expect from a collection such as this. His own words to students, spouses, daughters, and fellow scientists reveal Feynman's brilliance far more effectively than any biographical lens ever could. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelierby Thaddeus CarhartISBN 0753156210 (0-7531-5621-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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A Primate's Memoirby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0743202414 (0-7432-0241-4)
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His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboonsby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0743202473 (0-7432-0247-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Random Acts of Badness: My Storyby Danny BonaduceISBN 0786890479 (0-7868-9047-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The River War : An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudanby Winston L. S. ChurchillISBN 0786707518 (0-7867-0751-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Rum Diaryby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0684856476 (0-684-85647-6)
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The Same River Twiceby Alice WalkerISBN 0684814196 (0-684-81419-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Secret Life : An Autobiographyby Michael RyanISBN 0679767762 (0-679-76776-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Seinlanguageby Jerry SeinfeldISBN 0792719131 (0-7927-1913-1)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seinlanguage'Book summary:Seinlanguage could easily be subtitled The World According to Jerry. First published in 1993, when Seinfeld the sitcom was establishing itself as the funniest half-hour on television, this is a collection of Jerry's musings on everything from relationships to shushing in movie theatres. Observational comedy may have reached epidemic proportions recently, but Jerry Seinfeld was, and is, the master of his domain.
"I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'"
Eons hence, scholars may ponder the mysteries of this book in the same way that they now ponder the fragments of Heraclitus. Until then, Seinlanguage will continue to provide guaranteed chuckles in a neat and tidy package. Kind of like Jerry himself. --Simon Leake [via]
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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood And Back Againby Norah VincentISBN 0786286725 (0-7862-8672-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Son of Oscar Wildeby Vyvyan Holland, Merlin HollandISBN 0786707011 (0-7867-0701-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Son of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:With its thirty-three previously unpublished Oscar Wilde letters and its poignant recollections of a man as spontaneous, humane, and sincere as he was prodigiously witty, Vyvyan Holland's memoir of his famous father has come to be regarded as a biographical classic in Wildean studies. Sharply observed, vivid, and dispassionate, it offers not only an unforgettable portrait of Wilde himself, his circle of friends, and his band of persecutors, but also a touching chronicle of Holland's own childhood, of the loneliness he experienced as the son of a remarkable, notorious father and of his emergence from the shadows of cruel injustice and dark scandal.[via]
"Fascinating for the light it sheds on Wilde's Oxford days and on his domestic life." - Atlantic Monthly
"A strange chronicle . . . of considerable literary value." - New Yorker
"Mr. Holland's vivid glimpses of the aftermath of that cause célèbre of the Nineties [do] a valuable service of his father's memory." - Saturday Review
"An essential addition to Wildeana by a witness uniquely qualified to testify" - Library Journal
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The Spirit of St. Louisby Charles Augustus LindberghISBN 0684852772 (0-684-85277-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Spirit of St. Louisby Reeve Lindbergh, Charles Augustus LindberghISBN 0743237056 (0-7432-3705-6)
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The Stone Cold Truthby Steve Austin, Jim "J.R." Ross, Dennis A. Bryant, Vince McMahonISBN 0743482670 (0-7434-8267-0)
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The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflictby Russell KirkISBN 0802839541 (0-8028-3954-1)
Softcover, Isi Books
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Through a Window: Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombeby Jane GoodallISBN 0753801744 (0-7538-0174-4)
Hardcover, Phoenix Giant
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'Tis Herself : A Memoirby Maureen O'Hara, John NicolettiISBN 0743269160 (0-7432-6916-0)
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Wordsby Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, Marty AsherISBN 0679764151 (0-679-76415-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoirby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0684847957 (0-684-84795-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir'Book summary:Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries. We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the arteries of a seventy-year-old when she was only in her thirties and whose love of books allowed her to break the boundaries of the narrow world to which she was confined by her chronic illness; her two older sisters; her friends on the block; the local storekeepers; her school friends and teachers. This is also the story of a girlhood in which the great religious festivals of the Catholic church and the seasonal imperatives of baseball combined to produce a passionate love of history, ceremony, and ritual. It is the story of growing up in what seemed on the surface a more innocent era until one recalls the terror of polio, the paranoia of McCarthyism reflected even in the children's games, the obsession with A-bomb drills in school, and the ugly face of racial prejudice. It was a time whose relative tranquillity contained the seeds of the turbulent decade of the sixties. [via]
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A Walk Across Americaby Peter JenkinsISBN 0688034276 (0-688-03427-6)
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Walking on the Wind: A Memoir of the Movementby John Lewis, Michael D'OrsoISBN 0684810654 (0-684-81065-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dyingby Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Todd GoldISBN 0684846314 (0-684-84631-4)
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When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germanyby Christabel BielenbergISBN 0803261519 (0-8032-6151-9)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiographyby Jill K. ConwayISBN 0679766456 (0-679-76645-6)
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The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910 - 13by Apsley Cherry-GarrardISBN 0786704373 (0-7867-0437-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic, 1910-1913by Apsley Cherry-GarrardISBN 079226634X (0-7922-6634-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic, 1910-1913'Book summary:As Apsley Cherry-Garrard states in his introduction to the harrowing story of the Scott expedition to the South Pole, "Polar Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. The youngest member of Scott's team, the author was later part of the rescue party that eventually found the frozen bodies of Scott and three men who had accompanied Scott on the final push to the Pole. These deaths would haunt Cherry-Garrard for the rest of his life as he questioned the decisions he had made and the actions he had taken in the days leading up to the Polar Party's demise.
Prior to this sad denouement, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment. Each participant in the Scott expedition is brought fully to life. Cherry-Garrard's recollections are supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other teammates. Despite the sad fate of Scott, the reader will grudgingly agree with the closing words of The Worst Journey in the World: "Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." [via]
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LA Vida Locaby Luis J. Rodriguez, Simon & SchusterISBN 0684815516 (0-684-81551-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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